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Ben Livshits

CEO at Zilliqa

I lead Zilliqa Research. Currently hiring for top business and technical roles, most of which are remote — reach out directly.

A few words about myself: I am a computer scientist with a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University with an h-index of 51 and over 10,000 citations to my papers, an inventor skilled at turning academic research into industrial practice, and a professor. I previously was the Chief Scientist at Brave Software, leading a lot of the innovative development across cryptography, machine learning, performance, security, privacy, and other domains. For many years I worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research in Seattle; I also taught at UW, MIT, and Imperial College London. A lot of my work can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jaITaUcAAAAJ.

Zilliqa is a high-performance, high-security blockchain platform for enterprises and next-generation applications. Developed through academic research and helmed by a team of experienced scientists, engineers, venture creators, and leaders in financial services, Zilliqa addresses limitations in scalability and security, enabling real-world usability across a variety of industries, including DeFi, real-world finance, NFTs, creator economy, and gaming.